SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA RESOLUTION ON THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE LAW ON EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT The Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania resolves:
- To establish that the Republic of Lithuania Law on Employment Contract shall enter into force on 1 January 1992, with the exception of paragraph 2 of Article 4, and Article 37 which shall enter into force on 1 March
- In the period up to 1 March 1992, Articles 44 and 205 of the Labour Code of the Republic of Lithuania shall be in force. Article 37, paragraph 1
(1)of Article 43, and paragraph 4 of Article 158 of the Labour Code of the Republic of Lithuania shall be suspended from the day of enactment of this Law.
- To determine that regulations provided by this Law shall be applied to labour relations established prior to 1 January 1992 and maintained after the enactment of this Law.
- To commission: 1) the Government of the Republic of Lithuania to prepare, by 15 April 1992, the draft of the law on the amendments to the Labour Code of the Republic of Lithuania, and to other employment laws, which amendments bear on the enactment of the Law on Employment Contract; and 2) the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Security to prepare and approve, by 1 March 1992, the list of occupations where persons from 14 to 16 years of age may be employed to perform work in pursuance of paragraph 2 of Article 4 of the Law on Employment Contract.
- To establish that the period of notice specified in Article 28 of this Law shall be applicable only in the cases where an application concerning the termination of an employment contract was filed after this Law had come into force.
- In the previously enacted laws, to substitute the words "employment contract" for the words " contract of hire".
- To establish that Article 16 of this Law, which provides for the requirement to present social insurance certificates to the employer, shall enter into force on 1 January
- Up to the specified date, the regulations for the keeping of labour record books shall be valid.
- To establish that the employees who have been given notice of the termination of employment in the manner established by law on the grounds of the liquidation of an enterprise, institution or organisation, or reduction of the number of employees prior to the entry into force of this Law, upon being discharged on the specified grounds shall have the right to receive gratuity on discharge (other payments) for choice either as provided for in Article 40 of this Law or in Article 51
(3)of the Labour Code of the Republic of Lithuania. 8. To grant the right to the Ministry of Justice to interpret the application of the Law on Employment Contract in conjunction with the Ministry of Social Security. VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS President Supreme Council Republic of Lithuania Vilnius 28 November 1991 No. I-2050